Vocab (People)
What was the name for the Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas?
Conquistadors
What were large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made huge profits for their owners?
Plantations
Who was the ruler of the Aztec empire during the early 1500s?
Moctezuma II
What does circumnavigate mean?
to go all the way around
What does animal does Mrs. Gitten's last name rhythm with?
Kittens
Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire?
Hernán Cortés
What was the system that gave Spanish settlers the right to tax Native Americans or to make them work?
Encomienda system
Who was the conquistador who captured the Inca capital and killed the Inca leaders?
Francisco Pizarro
What is the name of the device used to determine a location based on the position of the stars?
astrolabe
What day of the week is Social Studies not in room 140?
Wednesday's
Who was the Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions?
Henry the Navigator
What was the agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Who was the sailor from Genoa, Italy who first discovered the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What were the name of Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind
caravels
What is the name of the Principal of MS 202?
Mr. Fitzgerald
Who was the Viking who landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000?
Leif Eriksson
What was the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe?
Columbian Exchange
Who was the priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner?
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Who was the Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Where did Mr. Keane go to college?
University of Alabama